Pants-presser.



'7 J. B. HANNA.

PANTSIBESSER, APPLIOATIOK FILED JULY 0. 190a. 921,107; Patented May 11, 1909.

JAMES BELA HANNA, OF CLAY, KENTUCKY.

PANTS-PRESSER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1909.

' -App1ication filed July 6, 1908. Serial No. 442,053.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JAMEs BELA HANNA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clay, in the county of Webster and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Pants-Presser, of which the following is a specification. J

This invention relates to an improvement in devices for creasing and stretching trousers.

One object is to provide a device simple in structure, embodying few parts, and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

Another object is to provide a means for adjustin the device to the various sizes of trousers egs thereby insuring afirm pressure on the parts to be creased.

With these andother objects in viewv as will more fully hereinafter appear, the res ent invention consists in certain 'nove details of construction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described illustrated in the accompanying drawings and articularly pointed out in the appended c aims, it being understood that various changes in the form proportion, size and minor details of the device may be made without departing from the spirit, or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this s ecification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of t e device showing the parts in operative position, and Fig. 2 is a section taken in line 22 Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to designate corresponding parts throughout. f

In the construction illustrated in Fig. 1, the holder proper consists of two members 1, and 2, each formed of a single piece of metal or other suitable material bent upon itself so as to form 'aws 3, and 4, (Fig. 2) of equal lengths. T e edges of the jaws 4, are rovided with a plurality of equally spaced ugs 5, and 6, to which are pivoted clamping strips 7, and 8, of a length sufficient to extend substantially across the bar 3, and are adjacent their free ends turned slightly upward so as to more readily engage the outer face of the jaw 3. Pivotally secured to the lugs 5, and 6, adjacent the free ends of the jaw 4, are clam bars 9, and 10, of slightly greater length t an the clamp bars 7, and 8, and are at their free ends provided with lateral ears 11, (Fig. 2) designed to engage the opposed inner edges of the jaw 3, as illustrated in Fi 2, so that when the parts are in position as i ustrated in Fig. 1, lateral movement of the jaws is prevented by these ears. Secured to the outer faces of the jaws 3, and 4, and adjacent the free ends thereof are the adjusting arms 11, and 12 extending inwardly and at right angles to the jaws 3, and the former of which is provided on its longitudinal sides with inwardly curved portions forming guides 13, which receive the strip 12, as illustrated in Fig. 1, so that by moving the strip to the right or left results in adjusting the device to the width of the leg portion of the trousers. The inner ends of the jaws 3, and 4, are at their juncture curved outwardly so as to form eyes 14, which receive the opposed ends of a bail 15, having an outwardly and in wardly curved central portion 16 adapted to engage a clothes hook or other support.

In'the use of the device (it being understood that the clamp bars are outof enga ment with the jaws 3) the ends of the leg portion of the trousers are brought together and inserted between the jaws 3, and 4, the latter having been adjusted to width of the leg portion of the trousers. The clamp bars 7, and 8, are now brought into engagement with the jaw 3, and are forced upon the outer face of the latter until they are at approximately right angles to the jaw 3. The bars 9, and 10, are then turned on their pivots until parallel with the bars 7, and 8, in which position the ears 11, will engage the inner edges of the jaw 3. it will be noticed that the opposedinner edges ofthe jaws 3, are at their ends rounded off as shown at 17, in order to permit the bars 9, and 10, being brought into and out of engagement with the jaws 3.

What is claimed is 1'. A-hanger for trousers comprising a pair of holders each formed of a metallic strip bent upon itself so as to form a pair of jaws, an arm secured to a jaw of one holder a similar arm secured to a jaw of the other holder said second named arm provided with a guide adapted to receive the first named arm, and a means for locking each pair of jaws together in holding position.

2. A hanger for trousers comprising a pair of holders each formed of a metallic strip bent upon itself so as to form a air of jaws an arm secured adjacent the end of a jaw of one holder, a similar arm secured to a jaw of the opposite holder said second named arm provided at its longitudinal sides with guides adapted to receive the first named arm and a means for locking each pair of jaws together in trousers holding position 3. A hanger for trousers comprising a pair of holding members each consisting of a pair of resilient jaws, one jaw of each pair being rovided with a rounded surface at one of its lower corners, a clamping bar pivoted to the other jaw of reach air adapted when moved into and out of c amping position to pass over said rounded surface, an arm at one end of one member provided with a guide, and an arm on the opposite member adapted to enter said guide.

4. A hanger for trousers comprising a pair of holding members connected together for lateral adjustment, each member consisting of a pair of resilient jaws, a clamping bar having one end pivoted to one aw of each holding member and provided at its opposite end with an angular projection, the other aw of each member being provided at one corner with a rounded surface serving to permit the movement of said clamping member into and out of position.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES BELA HAN NA.

Witnesses J. B. BLAonwnLL, E. O. IIAWKINS. 

